Delayed Cancer Diagnosis or Misdiagnosis and Wrongful Death Claims

If your family member died from negligent treatment following a misdiagnosis of cancer, our medical negligence team could help you bring a compensation claim. Medical practitioners, e.g., doctors, nurses, midwives, and institutional health providers, e.g., NHS hospitals and private hospitals, owe a duty of care to their patients. If a medical professional breaches a duty of care, the victim of that breach may seek legal advice about bringing a late cancer diagnosis claim. The prospective claim will be against the individual practitioner or the health providers.

How to Prove that There Was a Breach of Duty of Care?

By proving that the course of action the health practitioner took was not supported by any ‘reasonable body of medical opinion.’ Suppose the NHS or the private hospitals’ insurers deny liability in a claim brought against them for medical negligence caused by delayed diagnosis. In that case, you will need to obtain independent expert medical evidence to prove the course of action taken by the health practitioner is not a method supported ‘by any reasonable body of medical opinion.’ Your legal expert will arrange for the relevant medical evidence to be obtained as part of the medical negligence claim process.